Code to extract the text string from 0xAD
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:32 am
I just wanted to release this packethook code to anyone who finds it useful. The thing to realize is that 0xAD packet can send the player's speech in 2 different ways and at 2 different offsets based on whether the player has speech.mul installed and the text is using it or not. This is a very simple code that will set the variable 'speech' to a string containing the exact text the character has said. This was never intended to be a complete code in this post, just a snippet to put in your code and handle the speech from there in any way you like. The exported function start is there only for reference to the variable names.
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exported function HandleSpeech( character, byref packet )
var speech := "";
var speechstart := 12;
if (packet.GetInt8(3) == 0xC0)
var triggers := packet.GetInt16(12)/16;
var bytes := CInt(triggers*1.5 + 2);
speechstart := CInt(speechstart + bytes);
var speechlen := packet.GetInt16(1) - 1 - speechstart;
speech := CStr(packet.GetString(speechstart, speechlen));
else
var speechlen := (packet.GetInt16(1) - 13)/2;
speech := CChrZ(packet.GetUnicodeString(speechstart, speechlen));
endif
// the variable 'speech' is now the exact text they said. Do whatever you want with it from here.
I did.